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Jackson becomes bitter when other black leaders, those he feels are content to serve as "trustees of the ghetto," dismiss him as opportunistic. "Part of our problem now is that some of our leaders do not seize opportunities," he says. "I was trained by Martin to be an opportunist...
...will be able to invest more funds in new technology. In a speech to the Central Committee last month, the Soviet leader pointedly criticized plant officials who were reluctant to modernize machinery because they feared that it would cause them to miss their production quotas and force them to dismiss workers...
...Cambridge court this week decided to dismiss all criminal charges in six months against a Summer School student who was arrested three weeks ago on charges that he stole a bicycle and damaged several street-lights in Harvard Square. The decision is contingent upon his good behavior...
...mischief in labeling is that it sometimes distorts reality. On the basis of what is known now, not only is this not another Watergate, it is almost exactly the opposite." Reagan aides have talked to reporters. The President has ordered full cooperation with investigators. And he has pledged to dismiss anyone proved guilty of wrongdoing. Nothing could be further from stonewalling...
...most Miamians know, it would be a mistake to dismiss McMullan simply as the town grouch. Renowned though he is for his cantankerousness, McMullan maintains the charm, the manner and the vocabulary of a gentleman, even as now, in retirement, he drives to break 80 on the golf course and master his new IBM Personal Computer, a staff going-away gift. With a similar determination to preserve integrity in private and public, he insisted that the suicide in 1976 of his daughter, a psychiatric nurse, be fully reported in the Herald. Both the paper's staff and knowledgeable professional...